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Child Health Research Day

Agenda

Main Conference Room: Kenny Theatre, located in the Darryl J. King Student Life Centre at King's University College
Breakout Rooms: Labatt Hall (LH) 100, 101
Poster Displays: Labatt Hall (LH) 105

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9:30

Registrant Check-In Table Opens, Refreshments

Room: LH 101

10:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Room: Kenny Theatre

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10:10

Select Abstract – Resident Research Competition Rep

10:30

Flash Poster Presentations (1- to 2-minute rapid-fire presentations)

Room: Kenny Theatre

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Poster 4

Mindfulness Matters: Early Insights From The Making Mindfulness Matter© In Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Study

Presented by:
Dr. Roberta Berard, London Health Sciences Centre

Poster 29

Evaluation Of A Nurse-Initiated Medical Directive To Improve Timeliness Of Care In Children With Suspected Pneumonia In The Pediatric Emergency Department (PED)

Presented by:
Mohammed Said Juma Said AlOraimi, Western University, LHSC

Poster 30

Exploring The Role Of Geographic Residence On Follow-Up Outcomes In Paediatric Celiac Disease

Presented by:
Anya Sarma, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University

Poster 31

Age-Of-Onset–Specific Gene Regulatory Architecture In Asthma Identified Through Integrative Genomic And Single-Cell Epigenomic Analysis

Presented by:
Grace Ennema, Western University

Poster 28

When “Good Eater” No Longer Suffices: Developing An Appetite For Dietitian Appreciation In Pediatric Healthcare  

Presented by:
Angelique Belanger, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University
Sereia Hubbard, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University

Poster 32

Creating Novel Molecular Tools To Track The Contributions Of Mitochondrial Quality Control Pathways To Subcellular Metabolic Dysfunction

Presented by:
Caitlin Oh, Western University

Poster 38

When Adolescents Look At Their Bodies: Individual And Social Explanations For The Dissatisfaction With What They See

Presented by:
Lulya Woldetinsae, School of Health Studies, Western University

Poster 26

Auditory Paradigm For Detection Of Covert Consciousness In Children Unresponsive After Acquired Brain Injury

Presented by:
Tallulah Nyland, Western University

Poster 35

Understanding The Structural Regulation Of Lipin1 Activity With Therapeutic Implications For The Treatment Of Childhood Rhabdomyolysis

Presented by:
Marina Zhang, Western University

Poster 43

The Focus Of Occupational Therapy And Occupational Therapy Assistant Services In The Partnering For Change School-Based Model

Presented by:
Kari Renahan, McMaster University

Poster 45

Enhancing Care Transitions In Transgender Health: A Scoping Review Of Transgender And Gender Diverse Patient Experiences

Presented by:
Tovan Lew, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Rachel Klein, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Poster 63

Reducing Premature Gluten-Free Diet Initiation In Pediatric Celiac Disease: Initial Findings From A Quality Improvement Initiative

Presented by:
Shaarmin Khan, LHSC

Poster 50

Systematic Review Of Transplacental Drug Transfer: Comparison Of Ex-Vivo Placental Perfusion And In-Vivo Cord Blood Data

Presented by:
Vania Marzbanrad , Schulich school of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, Children’s Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute

Poster 70

Tubulointerstitial Nephritis As An Extraintestinal Manifestation Of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Case Report

Presented by:
Akshaya Premkumar, London Health Sciences Centre

Poster 60

The Relationship Between Self-Reported And Observed Strategies Used By Early Childhood Educators During Naptime

Presented by:
Katarina McKenzie, University of Western Ontario

11:10

Networking, Poster Presentation, Judging

Room: Labatt Hall, Main Floor

11:45

Lunch

Room: Labatt Hall, Main Floor

12:30

Breakout Session

Breakout Session A: Clinical / Quality Improvement (QI)

Room: LH 100

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12:30

Virtual Reality for Procedural Distress in Children Undergoing Port-a-Cath Access: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Presented by:
Rossalex Suarez

12:40

Building Readiness in Inclusive and Diverse Gender-affirming Education: A Quality Improvement Project (BRIDGE-QI)

Presented by:
Shamez Kachra

12:50

Leveraging AI Translation to Increase Access to Arabic-Language Discharge Education Sheets in the Pediatric ED

Presented by:
Sujitha Srinathan

1:00

Pediatric Foreign Body Ingestions in London, Ontario: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Presented by:
Luxshikka Canthiya

1:10

Structure-Function Coupling for Epileptogenic Zone Network Identification and Connectivity Analysis in Paediatric Focal Epilepsy

Presented by:
Adetunji Oremakinde

1:20

Primary Care Involvement in the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Scoping Review

Presented by:
Fatima Mela

Breakout Session B: Basic Science

Room: LH 101

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12:30

Pancreatic Beta-cell Plasticity: Trans- differentiation of Delta- to Beta-cells during Pregnancy

Presented by:
Bavina Thirunavukarasu

12:40

CTCF haploinsufficiency biases embryonic ventral lineage allocation toward striatal neurons programs in single-cell multi-omics

Presented by:
Alireza Ghahramani

12:50

Therapeutic rescue of pathogenic asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase alleles

Presented by:
Tristan Samuels

1:00

Toward Early Diagnosis of Preeclampsia and FGR Through Integrated Placental and Circulating Signatures

Presented by:
Chloe Jang

1:10

Higher buccal-epithelial mitochondrial DNA copy number is associated with early childhood caries and adverse developmental health and functioning

Presented by:
Luis Limo

1:20

Loss Of Osteopontin Improves Uterine Vascular Function In Hypertensive Pregnancy

Presented by:
Megan Lave

1:30

Networking Break and Refreshments

Room: Labatt Hall, Main Floor

1:45

Introduce and Present Award to Marla Dubinsky

Room: Kenny Theatre

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4:00

Braxton Stokes Brown Award in Paediatric Neuroscience

Room: Kenny Theatre

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4:15

Closing Remarks

Room: Kenny Theatre

Speaker: Craig Campbell

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4:25

Networking, Evening Registration

Room: Labatt Hall, Main Floor

Contact Us

For more information or questions regarding:

Child Health Research Day / Poster Session

Megan Dykstra
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Phone: 519-685-8500 *77566

Child Health Symposium

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